Sidney b



s. B, WINN.

TRAILER.

APPLICATION FILED IAN-5. I918- 1,316,661. I Patentedsept 23, 1919.

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or LAPEER, MIGHIGAN, A CORPORATION or MICHIGAN.

TRAILER.

Application meal January 5, 1918. Serial No.

citizen of the United States of America, re

siding at Lapeer, in the county of Lapeer and State of Michigan, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Trailers, of which. the following is a specification, reference being had therein to the 'aceompanying drawings.

In my Patent No. 1,249,705 dated Dec. 11, 1917, and in my companion application of even date Serial No. 210,414 there is disclosed a truck adapted to be connected relatively to a trailerf'the trailer being provided with a brake mechanism and a rest member or leg adapted for controlling the brake mechanism and the connecting and disconnecting means between the truck and trailer.

The truck includes a novel track, draft. appliance and coupling device;

aS brought out 1n my patent and the forward end of the trailer includes means whereby the truck can be easily and quickly connected and disconnected relatively thereto and when eon nected has a. fifth wheel action, so that the trailer may be manipulated just as though propelled by a power plant carried thereby.

This invention relates to that portion of my companion application disclosing the trailer as having a brake mechanism eonor rest member irrespective of the nature of the cOu ling means between the trailer and the true bination of these two features, one controlled by the other, will be hereinafter referred to and then claimed, and reference will now be had to the drawings, wherein Figure 1 is a longitudinalseetional view. of the trailer relatlvely to a portion of a truck;

Fig. 2 is a plan of the same.

The trailer comprises a frame 1 adapted to have the forward end thereof connected, as generally denoted at 2, to the rear end of a truck or similar vehicle and when it is disconnected forward end of the trailer frame is adapted to be supported by a pivoted leg or rest member 4. This leg or rest member is fixed on a rock shaft 5, ournaled in bearings 6 carried by the 'sides of the frame leg or rest member may be raised and lowered by a device carried by the trailer frame Specification of Letters Patent.

. The comand relatively to the truck 3, the

, and said Patented Sept. 23, 1919., 210,414.

- and connected to said leg or rest member. The

device comprises a horizontal pivoted lever 7 having the outer end thereof projecting fromthe side of the trailer frame and the inner end thereof extending through a notchedguide and connected to a transverse member 20 of the leg or rest member 4 by a rod 9. The pivoted lever 7 may be set 1n engagement with the guide-'8 so as to hold member in an adjusted posithe leg or rest tion.

The rear end o fthe trailer frame 1 is sup ported on springs 10 carried by an axle .11 and wheels 12. The axle 11 supports a conventional form of brake rigging-13 having brake shoes or hands 14 movable relative to the wheels 12, so that said wheels may be locked against rotation or released for rotation. The brake mechanism is actuated through'the medium of rods 15 extending forwardly and connected to cranks 16 on the rock shaft 5.

By lowerin the leg or rest member 4 to an active posltlon, the forward end of the V trailer frame will be supported and the brakes will be set so that the trailer cannot accidentally move when being loaded or unloaded. en a truck supports the forward end of the trailer, the leg or rest member must be raised and when swung to an inactive position the brakes are released thus allowing the truck to move the trailer.

One embodiment of my invention has been illustrated, but it is to be understood that the structural elements are susceptible to such variations and modifications as fall within the scope of the appended claims.

What I claim is 1. A trailer comprising a frame, a rest member contiguous to the forward end thereof, wheels supporting the rear end of sald frame, a brake mechanism for said wheels and'actuated from said rest member, means supported centrally of" said frame and operatable at a point between said rest member and the wheels of said frame, adapted for adjusting said rest mem.-- her.

2. A trailer comprising a frame, a. pivoted rest member contiguous to the forward end thereof, wheels supporting the rear end of said frame, a brake mechanism for said wheels and adapted to be operated by said rest member, and a horizontally disposed lever eonnectedto said-rest member and projecting from said frame adapted for ad justini said rest member.

3. trailer comprising a frame, a rock shaft carried thereby, a rest member having its upper ends mounted on said rock shaft against the inner side walls ofsaid frame and adapted for supporting the forward end of said frame, wheels su porting the rear end of said frame, a braiie mechanism for said wheels adapted to be actuated from 7 said reekshaft, and means carried by said iframe 'between saidi rock shaft and the wheels .of said frame adapted for rocking said shaft through the medium of said rest member. In testimony whereof I afiix my signature in the presence of two witnesses.

' SIDNEY B. WINN. Witnesses:

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